The department of home affairs has cleared the backlog of nearly 250,000 identity documents in one month it said in a statement Wednesday. 

The backlog started to accumulate in November 2023 following a change in IT service providers, which created a bottleneck in multiple areas in the production value chain, from the office of application, to application authentication, to printing and to final issuing of the ID. ..

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